Will never even step foot in another Belk. - Sales Associate Belk Employee Review

2.0
Jul 6, 2016
Recommend
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Pros

Employee discounts is great. Double discount days make you somewhat like the place more. It even work with coupons and clearance. Things go on sale fast. Schedule is really flexible so you can go to school and/or have a 2nd job.

Cons

There no job advancement they refuse to even hire for full time. Only part time I'm sure it's because they do not want to pay for insurance. Management does not care about you. They talk to you any kind of way, belittling and being condescending. They treat you like slaves. Pressure on opening credits and sales goals is a hassle. They are people pleasers and don't know how to refuse a fraudulent transaction, yet always complains about things that we need to look out for. The store is always short staffed. I remember having to cover home, plus size, petites, and intimates all at once (since they are all on the same floor) and customers kept complaining. I felt so depressed that day because satisfying customers is a top priority and when I had to tell customers I don't know how to fit a bra or this isn't my area because the schedule is always screwed up and they complain. You would think operations team job is to change signs to the appropriate price points before the store open or before the store close but the associates have to do it because the signs are always wrong! Had a customer say they will never shop there again because of how management treat the employees leaving us short staff and said this is nothing more than a Target and doesn't belong in an upscale mall like Phipps Plaza. I used to love working at Belk but slowly I started to dread going and eventually I just left like plenty of other great employes.

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Cons

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Cons

I hurt myself and had to have surgery, and I was on Worker’s Comp. with limited availability. Because hours were short in operations, they made up this crazy position and wanted me to be ”lead” of the markdown team. I knew that meant for the most part to do go backs. I told them I wasn’t allowed to be on my feet that long and so she said they couldn’t accommodate me and I had to leave. And then the manager had the nerve to call their workers comp and told them I wasn’t coming into work. The management at that time was horrible. But there was a time when I first started working there that to store manager, and the assistant manager were wonderful. We were all so sad they left, but it didn’t take this new manager that I was talking about any time at all to lose almost the entire store associates.

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